April 30, 2012

For days in February 2011, protesters slept in the Capitol and spent their days booing and jeering Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators....

Supporters of Tubbs, 58, say his willingness to negotiate was the reason that there were no major injuries, no permanent damage to the Capitol and no riots. But his opponents say that same personal style turned the Capitol into the first Occupy campsite....

There’s another theory on why Tubbs chose June 1 to start his new job: He doesn’t want to be around for what some say could be “Round 2.”

The Police Chief is being scapegoated.I recall something about the Wisconsin laws that make exclusion of citizens from their Capitol Building illegal.

Maybe Garage made that up. But the expectations seemed to be that the demonstrators were legally entitled to be there.

They could alays try hiring George Zimmerman and let him interact with the weirdest demonstrators using his best practices from Florida HOAs. He should get by Human Resources since he is part black, part white, part Hispanic and all plain old panic.

Is that where people dance around a pole? Ribbons nailed to the top of the pole, each dancer has a ribbon. They dance in and out, left and right, clickity-clack, some fancy footwork, dips and dives, always forward, and before you know it the pole is all wrapped up in woven ribbon.

Traditionalguy, exactly. Tubbs was caught between a rock and a hard place. It was his calm demeanor and willingness to negotiate that helped keep things peaceful, even when Walker locked the doors to the Capitol and tensions were very high.

The real problem with Tubbs and his officers wasn't negotiating with the protestors; it was the Capitol Police's disinterest in providing Repbulican elected officials safe passage from parking to the Capitol and within the Capitol building.

Asked how close those confrontations came to escalating to violence, Riseling said, “To be honest with you, we came within 20 minutes of a really ugly situation. But what I was ordered to do, I refused to do. We came very close on several times to what could have been sparks that would have sent this in a very, very different direction.”

The near violence was due to his orders, not to anything the protestors were doing?

"Ask yourself why conservatives can't mobilize a large enough mob to march on Madison tomorrow.

Everyone's at work?"

-- And, they're winning. Walker -won- his election. Unlike with sports, in politics, it is very hard to get the winning team fired up for a post game victory party. Unless it is, you know, the bloody part of the post revolution.

Interesting, if Tubbs decided to act outside of his lawful authority by deliberately disobeying a lawful order, I wonder to what extent he loses his qualified immunity and could be held personally liable for any damages that result?

Just read Walker already spent 20 million on his recall (not including criminal corruption probe lawyers fees), and reported raising 13 million since January, from the overtaxed and overburdened job creators.

"Supporters of Tubbs, 58, say his willingness to negotiate was the reason that there were no major injuries, no permanent damage to the Capitol and no riots. But his opponents say that same personal style turned the Capitol into the first Occupy campsite."

So, Tubbs prevented leftists from ripping up the capitol...by allowing the 'occupiers' to linger and engage in their 'endless fuckery'.

The Police chief has never really worked a day in his life. He's never really dealt with the kind of marauding bands that a majority of the police chiefs in this country are facing in terms of how do they prove Obama is really a foreigner, how do they send him back to Chicago, and why do we worry about his future.